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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 250ce00 | All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause. Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port, each with its given instinct as its guide. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| c1d2438 | These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 9ef5d73 | What is it then? Why do you hesitate? Why do you relish living like a coward? Why cannot you be bold and keen to start? | bravery cowardice live-your-life | Dante Alighieri | |
| ca27872 | Sunt un om viu. Nimic din ce-i omenesc nu mi-e strain. Abia am timp sa ma mir ca exist, dar ma bucur totdeauna ca sunt. Nu ma realizez deplin niciodata, pentru ca am o idee din ce in ce mai buna despre viata. Ma cutremura diferenta dintre mine si firul ierbii, dintre mine si lei, dintre mine si insulele de lumina ale stelelor. Dintre mine si numere, bunaoara intre mine si 2, intre mine si 3. Am si-un defect un pacat: iau in serios iarba, ia.. | Nichita Stănescu | ||
| 2896451 | And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 49afa28 | Don't tell me that our situation didn't damage us, possibly irreparably. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| e5edcf1 | Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us. | gabriel-emerson gabriel-s-rapture inferno romance | Sylvain Reynard | |
| a941806 | Your love makes me beautiful." "Then let me love you forever." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 1cb4151 | Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? Human beings have a tremendous capacity for cruelty. Why is there any goodness at all? | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| e4bcc17 | Because we're soul mates, just like Aristophanes described- one soul in two bodies. You're my missing half. You're my bashert. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| c5c5054 | Das por sentado que mis anteriores relaciones fueron satisfactorias, pero te equivocas. Tu me diste algo que nadie me habia dado antes: sexo y amor al mismo tiempo. Eres la unica de mis parejas que ha sido mi amante en el autentico sentido de la palabra. | spanish | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 5398163 | Volveras? --Su voz era casi un gemido. El suspiro profundamente. --Manana sere expulsado del Paraiso, Beatriz. Nuestra unica esperanza es que tu me encuentres. Buscame en el Infierno. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 4f6eddf | This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. A picture of love and deep satisfaction. An ecstatic glimpse of the beatific vision. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| bac97c2 | You toyed with her heart. I know what that's like. I can have compassion for her because of that." "I met you first," he whispered. "That doesn't give you license to be cruel." | gabriel-s-rapture julia sylvain-reynard | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 5570834 | He has a heart, somewhere, underneath everything else. I know, I saw it once. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 3f1633d | She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 0fee67f | This is the culmination of all my hopes, Gabriel. Julia reached out to him and he strained to catch her pinky finger with his own. This is my happy ending. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f71dcb1 | A tall and shirtless Gabriel looked down at her. He was clad only in his underwear, which made him look slightly sexy and slightly ridiculous. His fists were clenched, and Julia saw the tendons standing out in his magnificent arms. | sylvain-reynard | Sylvain Reynard | |
| bc80815 | Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| e2154d0 | I shall die soon ... Here at this Dros. And what will I have achieved in my life? I have no sons nor daughters. No living kin... Few friends. They will say, 'Here lies Druss. He killed many and birthed none'." "They will say more than that," said Virae suddenly. "They'll say, 'Here lies Druss the Legend, who was never mean, petty nor needlessly cruel. Here was a man who never gave in, never compromised his ideals, never betrayed a friend, n.. | David Gemmell | ||
| 640baa3 | There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats. | David Gemmell | ||
| c44f7b6 | Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 86b291c | Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4f7f36b | But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 68e5524 | Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 13a27f2 | I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear, | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f93a044 | Books lay on the floor in literary dunes. | Chris Columbus Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2dd31d4 | I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who stood on each other's shoulders to peek over the temple at you and call out "Hello, Mrs. Lady!" as you walked by. There were novices who snuck cigarettes at night outside the temple walls, the embers of their smokes glowing as orange as their robes. I saw a buff teenage monk doing push-u.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d8ea939 | fy lHb lyy's , nkhtr` shkhSyt lshrky'n fy lHy@ wnTlb mnhm 'n ykwnw km nrydhm 'n ykwnw , thm nnhr Hyn yrfDwn l`b ldwr ldhy khtr`nh fy l'ss | love novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 77c2112 | nSf fy'd@ lsjwd ttmthl fy lTlb bHdW dhth , fy lny@ lslym@ lwDH@ . | novel prostration | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e3b5b08 | the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 081d7e3 | I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b0da071 | Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e5428d1 | Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4147265 | Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. | elizabeth-gilbert enlightenment life success wisdom writing | Brandi L. Bates | |
| ea7babf | tkhylt myn `qly ,,, fhw `l~ l'rjH myn mthlk, mzqth l`wSf, wlknW mwq`h jyd w`mqh mnsb. myn `qly hw khlyj mftwH, nh lmdkhl lwHyd ljzyr@ dhty (why jzyr@ shb@ wbrkny@, 'jl, wlknh khSb@ ww`d@). wqd khDt hdhh ljzyr@ b`D lHrwb, wlknWh ltzmt lan blslm, bqyd@ z`ym jdyd ('n) wD` syst jdyd@ lHmy@ lmkn. wlan, thm@ qwnyn 'kthr Srm@ bkthyr bkhSwS mn ydkhl hdh lmyn. ....... fn mknk y fkry l`zyz@ lltzm bhdhh lqwnyn ljdyd@, hl wshl, wl, fltrj`y l~ lbHr, mn .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9d6213e | I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3c71379 | In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history." | corinthians humor marriage st-paul | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4616811 | Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow--for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b062b13 | In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. | gratefulness life wisdom | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 581d0f7 | He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bd86eaf | I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one ask.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| ad45209 | The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; so to say it is ambiguous is to assert that it's meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through fai.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 732ecdc | I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead. | David James Duncan |